Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

Cross References (24)

  • Psalms 102:9 (5)

    For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears

  • Hosea 12:1 (5)

    Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant w

  • Job 15:31 (5)

    Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.

  • Romans 1:28 (5)

    Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to

  • Hosea 4:12 (4)

    My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astra

  • 2 Timothy 2:13 (4)

    if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.

  • Romans 1:25 (4)

    They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever

  • Romans 1:20–22 (3)

    For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly se

  • Isaiah 28:15–17 (3)

    For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scou

  • 2 Timothy 3:13 (3)

    while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

  • Proverbs 15:14 (3)

    A discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.

  • 1 Kings 22:20–23 (3)

    And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab to march up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one suggested this, and another tha

  • 1 Timothy 4:2 (3)

    influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

  • Luke 15:16 (3)

    He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

  • Revelation 20:3 (3)

    And he threw him into the Abyss, shut it, and sealed it over him, so that he could not deceive the nations until the tho

  • Job 15:2 (3)

    “Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?

  • Habakkuk 2:18 (3)

    What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own cr

  • Jeremiah 16:19 (3)

    O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the

  • Isaiah 59:3–4 (3)

    For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutte

  • Revelation 18:23 (3)

    The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you a

  • Revelation 12:9 (3)

    And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. H

  • 2 Thessalonians 2:9–11 (3)

    The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false won

  • Isaiah 59:13 (3)

    rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies

  • Revelation 13:14 (3)

    Because of the signs it was given to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived those who dwell on the earth, tel